Monday, January 22, 2007

Mayada: Daughter of Iraq: One Woman’s Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson

Jean Sasson writes revealing accounts of women’s lives in the Middle East. This factual story of Mayada Al-Askari, a member of a prominent Iraqi family will convince you that Saddam Hussein was pure evil. It will also leave questions in your mind about whether Saddam Hussein was indeed involved with Osama Bin Ladin and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mayada attracts Saddam’s attention as a journalist. What begins as Saddam’s favorable interest in her journalistic skills becomes imprisonment and torture on his orders. The stories of the women with whom she shares a cell are as compelling as her own. Four out of four bookworms.

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